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Friday, January 1, 2010

Dress Up A Plain Picture Frame

I had these picture frames {that hold a 4x6 size picture} hanging around with a couple of old pictures in them. I had taken some new pictures of my kids on Christmas Eve and since I printed out the pictures in 4x6 size, I thought I could re-use these frames. Just simple, plain black frames.

On one of my many trips to Michaels I had picked up two of these fleur de lis pendants {$2.79 each} from the jewelry section. I did not have any planned project for them, but knew that I could use them somehow, some way.

In playing around with laying them out, I found you could do a variety of things with them to dress up a frame. You could do four on an angle in each corner, but since I only had two I decided to put them in the middle top of each frame.

I used pliers to take off the metal ring at the top of each. A little hot glue and they’re done!

I blocked out my son’s girlfriend’s face in the pictures, not because I don’t like her {I felt like I was doing Sharpie graffiti on her face with the paintbrush tool in Photoshop}, but because she’s not my kid, and I don’t like to put other people’s kids online unless I get permission. She’s a lovely girl and I will enjoy looking at this picture of the two of them.

The second picture is my daughter, who was being overly dramatic for the camera. I still think she’s beautiful ~ drama or not!

Just another idea for thinking outside of the box in decorating or crafting. Dress up some plain picture frames with things like these jewelry pendants, or brooches, or even earrings.

28 comments:

Very Cute! How funny I recently bought one of those charms, I attached mine to an old rosary chain and have it hanging BUT I think I like the idea of attaching it better, to cute! Hope you had a nice New years Eve!

I have got to do this! I redecorated my clssroom this year and that is my theme! Here is the link: http://kristi-kikiscorner.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-classroom-makeover.htmlThanks for the fabulous idea. Happy New Year!

Cool! I love this project. So simple, but a big impact. I've seen those very same fleur de lis jewelry pieces at the craft store. Now I'm going to have to start stocking up on cute ones when I see them.

Thanks for sharing this project. Oh, and your kids are gorgeous. From your profile pic, you don't look old enough to have kids that age! ;o)

I love these and hope you post to my party tonight. Then can you contact Hobby Lobby and find out when they will be getting a HL here in SW FL--I guess they are tired of hearing from me-no response as of yet.So glad we will be on the band wagon together.

Hi Kathy! Love how you dressed up the frames. I am uncomfortable showing my kids faces on my blog. There are a lot of creepers out there. The only picture showing them facing the camera was on my Christmas post. Even then, I kind of wished I hadn't shown them.

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I am married for 30 years, a Mom to two adult children, and LaLa to two beautiful granddaughters. Now living in Ohio after living my whole life in New York. I love decorating, creating and repurposing. This is where I share tips, tricks, trends and a little fun.